A Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man.
1 Next day the fakeer joined again; made him leave at Mana.
2 He cared no more for punishment than the fakeer for his self-inflicted tortures.
3 The toad is a fakeer , and thinks the beatitude of life lies in contemplation.
4 Sometimes a fakeer trusted a shade too far in the protection of his sacredness.
5 On that expedition they murdered a fakeer and twelve beggars.
6 After the killing of thirty-nine men and one woman, the fakeer appears on the scene:
7 Drove off the fakeer , and killed the other three.
8 To this the fakeer agreed, and so they parted.
9 When near it, the fakeer came again.
10 All four were strangled, including the fakeer .
11 Drove off the fakeer with stones, and killed the 6 men in camp, and buried them in the grove.
12 The fakeer was seated on a little old bedstead reading the Koran, with his patched cloak thrown over his shoulders.
13 The fakeer rose, and, making a sign to the king to follow, walked a few paces along a dark passage.
14 Fakīr ( fakeer ) , a religious mendicant.
15 Instantly he hurried off himself, and found that it was really true, and that the fakeer was even then breathing his last.
16 Leaving Doregow, the fakeer joined again, and went on in company to Raojana; met 6 Khutries on their way from Bombay to Nagpore.
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